Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

Conference Session

Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-3769: ENGINEERING AS A CAREER CHOICE AMONG RU-RAL APPALACHIAN STUDENTSMr. Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech Matthew Boynton is a doctoral student in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech. Before entering Virginia Tech, he earned a B.S. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering, and an Ed.S in instructional leadership from Tennessee Technological University. His engineering work experience includes work within a rural telecommunications service provider and an environmental consulting firm. While working toward his M.S. and Ed.S, Boynton worked with the Extended Education Department at Tennessee Technological University teaching Project Lead the Way engineering courses in rural high

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida; Bill Blank, University of South Florida; Victor Hernandez-Gantes, University of South Florida; Maniphone Dickerson, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

AC 2010-1675: USING CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGIES INPROBABILITY AND STATISTICSKingsley Reeves, University of South FloridaBill Blank, University of South FloridaVictor Hernandez-Gantes, University of South FloridaManiphone Dickerson, University of South Florida Page 15.1322.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Constructivist Teaching Strategies in Probability and StatisticsAbstractThis paper discusses the early results of an NSF EEC project that focuses on the impact of usingconstructivist approaches to teaching probability and statistics for engineers. Twelve exerciseswere developed and used in a modified version of the course to promote student

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

construction of a prototype, a group of business students enrolled in MGMT 301,“Project Management,” conducted a market study during Summer 2003 to assess the marketpotential of OPTX. A letter survey was sent to 100 private and public middle-school teachers inthree geographic (rural, suburban, and urban) areas of Michigan. Forty-nine responses werereceived (49% return rate). Sixteen percent of the respondents have taught between 1-to-5 years,31% 6-to-10 years, 22% 11-to-15 years, and 24% 16 years or more.The major findings of the survey were: 1. All respondents agreed a new approach is needed to teach light reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission; 2. 90% of all respondents stated OPTX would be useful for multiple lessons; 3. 12

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

pilot characterprograms. As of May 1999, nine states have initiated such projects. In Virginia, Georgia,Florida, and Mississippi legislation has been passed mandating that Character Educationprograms be implemented statewide. As a result, teacher education programs are nowbeing called on to provide a basic framework of Ethics and Character Education topreservice teachers. Greer (1998) believes that matters will certainly grow worse if theschools of education-and their colleagues in the liberal arts colleges-do not prepare thenation’s future teachers to teach effectively about morals and character.Developing an Ethics Education ComponentIn the fall of 1998, discussions began in our traditional four-year teacher preparatoryprogram on how to

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott DeLoach; Eric Matson

short lecture period with questions and answers. Then we show aNASA movie with robots venturing to Mars as a way to describe the future andpossibilities of robotics. The capstone experience is a set of experiments to allow thechildren to have a sensory experience with the robots. The agenda is identical for all ageswith the exception that the high school students are the only group to participate in theMulti-agent Race experiment.In the lecture, we discuss human and robot intelligence, then progress into learning andfinish with sensors. In each phase we compare and contrast the way humans use thesecapabilities to the way a robot is built and how it will use these capabilities.To begin the lecture, we compare and contrast human versus robotic

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation and technology management.Mark Urban-Lurain is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division of Scienceand Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision, direction, planningand implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developed several introductorycomputer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students per

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Carter; John Feland

been usedin two Stanford classes to provide students with a pedagogical scaffold to assist students indeveloping their innovation process. In ME297x, Innovation with Emerging Technologies12, thismodel was used to study historical innovations across disparate domains. Students also used thismodel to analyze the diffusion of emerging technologies as a Solution biased innovation process.That is to say, viewing the transition of Emerging Technologies into the greater market is apractice of potentially compelling Solutions in search of compelling Needs to be paired with. InME116A, the first in the capstone design sequence for the undergraduate Product Designcurriculum, the framework was used to develop and evaluate product concepts as

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

processes is a cornerstone ofEC 20001.Given the limitations of achievement tests in fulfilling outcomes assessment requirements, theassessment community has recommended several alternative approaches for assessing studentoutcomes. These include portfolios, capstone design project evaluations, student, alumni andemployer surveys, and placement data of graduates. Yet, written surveys administered to currentstudents are the most frequently used assessment instruments, due in part to two reasons – one,they are relatively inexpensive to conduct, and, two, a high response rate is almost guaranteed. Anatural question is whether these student self-assessments are valid substitutes for test questionscreated and scored by an instructor.This paper reports the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

graphical programming during the course, but this process isgradually built-in. A progressive exposure to create virtual instruments offer the best students theability to create their own virtual instruments, and develop capstone design projects. Theexperiences gained in teaching and research at the Korea university of Technology and Education(KUT), University of Hartford and Moscow State Technological University ‘STANKIN’ are usedin the development of case studies. Page 8.668.5CASE STUDIESCase Studies at KUTWeight Measurement System with Virtual InstrumentStrain gauges are used to measure the displacement -strain relationship of the aluminum beam. Inthis system, double strain

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Edward Howard; Joseph Musto

initiative, each new student was provided with aCompaq Armada 1750 notebook computer and a standard suite of software. Conventionalclassrooms were provided with network connections and projection equipment to facilitate theintegration of notebook computers into select classes. In conjunction with this program, a revisedMechanical Engineering curriculum was launched, designed to exploit the availability ofnotebook computing technology. The highlight of this curriculum revision is ComputerApplications in Engineering, a freshman-level Mechanical Engineering Department course Page 6.630.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

4,19,20,21,23, 24,255,10,17 12 14 technical economic 3,8,9 7,11,13,18,22, 27,29 32 Posttest Results product Figure 3. Posttest Results of MDS Analysis for Senior Design TermsIn the pretest (Figure 2) four distinct clusters of terms were observed:1- A cluster containing all terms that pertained to the economic analysis of a project: capital cost (Term 1), cash flow analysis (Term 2), economic optimum

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamal S. Yagoobi, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

must be ableto promote prototyping and creativity. This suggestion was based on such spaces beingimplemented at many of the institutions represented by the workshop participants. A dedicatedspace helps develop a Confucian model of learning where students learn by doing. Anothersuggestion was to use this learning environment to teach reverse engineering techniques forunderclassmen as a way to understand how other engineers have solved specific designchallenges. One particular example used by the University of Notre Dame included havingsophomores reverse engineer projects from the previous year’s senior-level capstone designcourse.Case studies were suggested as a method to promote intellectual curiosity and passion.Participants noted the role of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhsin Menekse, Arizona State University; Glenda Stump, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is cur- rently conducting research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change.Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University Micki Chi is a Professor in the

Conference Session

Development of Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

I/Obox simulator, and the other with the actual work-cell. Valuable demos also strengthened thelearning experience.In the near future, the author plans to incorporate the vibratory bowl feeders (under a secondwork-cell – where the students will actually wire the entire cell), and a state-of-the-art machinevision system (in place of an outdated one) into his laboratories. The work-cell will sort screwsdelivered by the feeder. Efforts for this new cell development have already begun. Additionalfuture projects may involve addition of DELMIA Robotics Virtual Simulation tool to this courseas well as the capstone project course (ENGR 4950 – Integrated Engineering Design) for seniors

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Erlandson

accessibledesign principles or issues.Table 1. Strategies for inclusion of AD material into various class categories. Category of Example Strategy class Dedicated Rehabilitation Engineering Dedicated content covering Human Factors accessibility and AD principles. Telecommunications and E&IT Design Capstone Design AD issues raised and considered as part of the design specifications. AD principles applied as appropriate. Engineering Any

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

to incorporate design projectswithin the technical classes: A group design project, with a final written report, requires the use(and hence learning) of all of these skills. A second opportunity to emphasize these skills is inlaboratory reports. It is easy to fall into the mode of providing detailed directions for eachlaboratory experiment and to require individual written reports from each student. However, byproviding only superficial directions and goals for the experiment, the students must developtheir problem solving skills (how to do the experiment). Secondly, by requiring group reports,the students will develop their teamwork skills. On the basis of this survey, the authors haveincorporated design projects into all their courses and

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tarik Eltaeib, Farmingdale State College ; M. Nazrul Islam, State University of New York; Qinghai Gao

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Application Administrator at a Mitsubishi Power Systems, where he built state-of-the-art Enterprise and Machine Learning Applications. Academic positions include Adjunct Professor at the University of Bridgeport, CT, and Assistant Professor – Computer Security where he is tenured at the School of Engineering Technology, Farmingdale State College - State University of New York. He has 6 years of higher education experience, and a total of 14 years. He has presented and published numerous conference papers, journal articles and contributed to a book chapter on Large-scale Evolutionary Optimization. He has excelled at going the extra mile, teaching not only his own classes but an additional Capstone projects, doing

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Cathy Bays

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

all require critical thinking skills. Critical thinking can be incorporatedinto engineering classes in a variety of ways including writing assignments, active learningstrategies, project-based design experiences, and course redesign. Clearly, accurately, andconsistently assessing critical thinking across engineering courses can be challenging.The J.B. Speed School of Engineering began revising core courses in the undergraduatecurriculum to align with goals and objectives of i2a and the ABET criteria. As a common coursefor all entering engineering students, Introduction to Engineering was the logical course tointroduce critical thinking to engineering students and to prepare them for the critical thinkingdemands they will experience in their

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, Oswego State University College; Rachid Manseur, State University of New York, Oswego; Thomas E. Doyle P.Eng., McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2011-1477: DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHLABORATORYAdrian Ieta, Oswego State University College Adrian Ieta (M’99) received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, in 1984, the B.E.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the ”Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and the M.E.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from The University of the Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, re- spectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, The University of Western Ontario, where he worked on industrial projects and taught. He is

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Anderson; Robert Serow; James Demery; Carl Zorowski; Catherine E. Brawner

be available. These methods allow us to probe into areasand tease out problems that may exist and may help to define a problem for future quantitativestudy. They also allow us to understand why projects succeed or fail in certain environments. Inthis paper we offer a model that uses qualitative assessment techniques to support the Checkstage of the PDCA model in a program with undergraduate engineering curriculum renewal as itsgoal. This 10-step process includes site visits, participant review, and an ongoing formalfeedback process about improvements that can be made based on the collected data. The modelis intended to provide a framework to others who may be in a position to evaluate a group ofprograms such as a coalition of institutions or

Conference Session

Communication - Needs and Methods

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas McGlamery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

a moreinterpersonal communication skill set in students. Indeed, as Trevelyan pointed out in his studyof communication practices of engineers in Australia, “assessment of communication inengineering education is misaligned with practice requirements”5. To better align educationalassessment of communication practices in the first place, educators need to know more abouthow this skill set is defined and practiced in engineering workplaces. This paper intends to helpshed light on that question through reporting on the ways that practicing engineers valued,defined, and practiced “communication skills”.Study Description and MethodsThis study is part of a larger project sponsored by the National Science Foundation whichexamines the alignment of

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Donald Gaitros, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Senior Capstone projects available to all Computer Science majors.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of CSF 4302, all Fellows will present their thesis duringthe annual ECS Scholar’s Day, even if their work is not yet complete.The Fellow’s Research Advisor will direct the thesis. In addition, Fellows must invite a secondprofessor in that field as well as a third professor outside of that field to serve as readers. In thespring of the junior year, Scholars register for CSF 4v01 to be taken in the fall of the senior year.A detailed outline, the first chapter of the thesis, and a bibliography must be submitted to theresearch advisor and the CSF Director at the end of that semester. In the fall of the senior year,students register for CSF

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Simionescu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Korinne Caruso, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Gregory R. Reuter, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

experience based on the post experimentsurvey. The laboratory can be also integrated with more advanced classes, like rapidmanufacturing process as discussed by Creese9 or computer aided optimization of castings, thelatter being however better suited to graduate engineering education10.It is fortunate that Texas A&M University Corpus Christi has a metal casting facility thatengineering students can have access to once a semester and perform one of their laboratoryexercises. Plans are in the making for students to use this facility for casting parts for theirprojects, including capstone projects, and continue this fruitful collaboration with the colleaguesin the Department of Arts

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

seminars,internships, learning communities, and capstone projects compared to only two anecdotalreferences to study aboard.This paper postulates that ABET’s Student Outcome 3(h) “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context” and Student Outcome 3(i) "a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in lifelong learning" are not mutually exclusive but rather interdependent and mutualisticin nature. Outcomes by their very nature describes what students should know or can do by thetime of graduation. The implication is therefore, that lifelong learning and a global perspectivemust originate within the 4-year engineering curriculum/program. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

%), are White/Caucasian(80.49%) and are male (82.93%). The remainder of the respondents were: Asian Americans(7.32%), Black/African Americans (4.88%), Foreign Nationals (4.88%),Hispanics/Latinos/Mexican Americans and female (14.63%). Participants were asked about their team training experiences and how they use teams intheir classroom. Findings show that more than two thirds (68.29%) of respondents haveparticipated in a workshop on effective teaming or teaming techniques. Among all therespondents, 80.49% use teams for design projects suggesting that they consider this an essentialtraining activity in preparing students for the work place. More than half of those surveyed(51.22%) use teams for homework/problem activities, 70.73% for in

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

Society for Engineering Education Session: 22472. ODU Engineering Technology Studies 33Students must complete 33 credits of Engineering Technology courses in their selected studyarea. This group of courses must include a capstone senior project in which the studentdemonstrates proficiency in the selected area. Several popular options are described in the tablebelow.3. Electives 6Selected from technology, business, or other area supporting student career interest.Total Upper Division Credits beyond AAS

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Deirdre D Ragan, The Citadel

course is taken in preparation for the senior year capstone design project.Components of this course include approaches to design, teamwork, project definition, projectplanning, understanding the customer, product specifications, concept generation, andpresentation skills. Usually, class time is split between instructor-led teaching of concepts, in-class individual and small group exercises, and a semester-long team design project.To increase connections to the needs of a customer and to focus creativity and design choices oncreating value-added products, open-ended in-class activities are conducted throughout thesemester. Students are presented with hypothetical situations with constrained design choices,unique customer requirements, and a

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Tim Hong-Chuan Lin; Jenny Zhen Yu

3.3 shows defective submissions ofprogramming students for the assignments and exams.Section 4 of this paper presents some remedies to the programming problems with pair programming, instructor’s fixes(educating the students on NOT doing the hard code approach, on teaching the students to do test and debug byincorporating several test cases in every programming assignment etc.Section 5 concludes this paper.2. Common Programming Errors (when students take the classes)2.1 When do Programming Problems Happen?Students of programming can have problems at the time when they take the programming class(es), or later on when theyneed to use their programming skills learned earlier in either a later class, capstone project in school, internship project

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Hull P.E., OP-TEC; Chrysanthos Andreas Panayiotou, Indian River State College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

2. Electro Optical Devices 3. Fiber Optics 4. Lasers Systems Robotics Specialty 5. Advanced Programmable Logic Controllers 6. Intro to Robotic Systems 7. Manufacturing Processes 8. Capstone Project Telecommunications Specialty 9. Computer Repair 10. Wireless Networks 11. Wireless Security 12. Telecommunication Systems TOTAL 60 Page 24.1151.6Replicating the Photonics Systems Technician Curriculum ModelIn 2014, 28 colleges across the U.S. have adopted the Photonics Systems Technician